Where the Past Meets the Future

Docklands

Apr 26, 2024

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“For they were young and the Thames was old,

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And this is the tale that the river told”

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-               Rudyard Kipling

Docklands is the name now given to the area that was, for years, the heart of the Port of London. The blocks of council houses and flats spread north of Victoria Dock Road in the area known as Custom House. They must have been built as the…

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